Dr. Agenia Walker Clark will become the next president of Fisk University, effective Nov. 6. She will be the school’s third female leader.
Dr. Agenia Walker Clark
Clark is currently a member of FirstBank Financial Corporation’s board of directors; Belmont University’s board of trustees; Simmons University’s board of trustees; and member of the International Women’s Forum.
“Dr. Clark’s lifelong dedication to improving the lives of young people, along with her unique combination of fundraising and brand-building skills, are exactly what Fisk needs today,” said Juliette Pryor, chair of the Fisk Board of Trustees.
Previously, Clark was CEO for the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee; vice president of human resources at the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation; senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University; and manager of government relations at Nortel Networks.
“To serve a new generation of brilliant, socially minded students—not unlike their counterparts of decades past, like W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, John Lewis and Dr. Diane Nash—is surely the honor of my lifetime,” Clark said. “No institution of higher-ed has a richer legacy—or a richer promise for the future—than Fisk.”
Clark is highly acclaimed for her work, having been named “Nashvillian of the Year” in 2021; listed as one of “Nashville’s 100 Most Powerful People” by the Nashville Business Journal; and inducted into the Academy for Women of Achievement.
Clark holds a B.S. and MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a doctorate in leadership from Vanderbilt University.
